Window screen



Jan. 16,1923. 1,442,652'. H. R. ELLIS.

WINDOW SCREEN.

` FILED JULY 3, i922. 2 SHEETS-SHEET l.

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Patented dan. iti, i923,

i narran erases nonnen n. nti-Is, QFMEADVILLE, rnnivsrnvanre.

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Application filed .'I1i1y3,`

citizen o1 the United States` resining atV Meadville. in the county ot Crawford -and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new andusetnl improvements in iV/iin dow Screens, et which the tollovefing isa specification. i

rlhis ini. relates to detachable Awindow screens, and has for one oits objects to provide a devi-vc ot this character, adapted to be arranged between the partly or fully opened sash and the stool or sill member ot a. window, and with fastening means to pre vent the detnchi'nent of the screen from the outside.

Another object ot the invention is to provide a device of this cliai'acter,torrmed of coacting overlapping `sections and i with means for holding the sectionsin distended position and vprovided'with .means for preventing the release of the lsections fromthe outside. i 'l Y lV ith these and other objects in view, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction as hereinafter shown and de scribed and then specically pointed out in the claims, and in the dra-wings'illustrative of the preferred embodiment of the invention Figure 1 is an elevation from the inside of the room of' a. part oil a window, with the improved screen in position therein,

Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1,

lFig. 3 is a'plan view oi the screen device, detached and enlarged,

Fig. el. is a section of the screendevice, enlarged, and in section on the line 4.-4 of Fig. 1,

Fig. 5 is an enlarged perspective view of one corner of the improved device.

Fig. 6 is a detached perspective view oi one of the guide rods illustrating a modicai tion in the construction. 1

The improved Vdevice includes a screen frame in coacting sections, each including upper rail members 10, lower rail members 11, an outer stile member 12 and anl inner stile member 13. The members 10,11 and 12 are preferably ot wood, while the member 13 is preferably in the form of a metal strip, as shown.

Portions of the rail members 10 and 11 overlap and are halved as shown, so that 1922. Serial No. 572,622.

the size ot the overlapping port-ions is not increased.

Attached at one side face of thevupper and lowerl rail members 10 and, 11 of one of the sections is a'guide bar 111-, each bar slidably engaging a guide keeper 15 on theother section, and attached to the other side face of the members 10 and 11 is a like guide bar 16' slidably engaging guide keepers' 17, on t-he other section, as shown inFigs. Bande.

The free ends of t-he guide bars 1e and 16 areoutturned as shown at18 and 19. By this means, the iframe sections will be held in coactive'relation and may bc adjusted toward and `away from each other, but cannot be separated by reason of the outturned portions 18 and 19 engaging against the keepers 15 and 17, as' will be obvious.

The screen material is of the usual kind and represented conventional-ly at 20, and attached as vby cleats 21 at three of its edges to the members 10, 11a`nd 12, and attached.` at its remaining` edge to a strip 22, preten ably of metal. The strip 22 is turned at right angles to the inner iiaceoli the connecting strip and is connectedthereto by bolts or the like, 23. By this means the screen material may be drawn tightly into position.

The screen sections are designed to rest by their lower rail members 11 upon the sill or stool 24, between the 'iframe and the casing members 25 and beneath the lower rail 26 of the lower sash, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. I

Attached to the stile members 12 of each section is a socket device 27, and seated in each socket is a locking rod 2S. the adpicerv ends of the rods'being spaced a short distance when the screen sections are disposed in position in the window, as shown in Fig. 1.

Slidable on the rods 2S is a relatively long sleeve 29, and formed through the sides of the sleeve are apertures 30, the apertures `corresponding in width to the distance bel sleeve 29 wholly upon vone of the rods '28,

detach one or both of the rods from `its socket 27 and slide the sections toward each other, or draw the free end of one of the 1 rods outwardly until it will pass the other rod when the screen sections are moved toward each other. Y i

By this simple means an effectual burglar and vsneak thief proof screen device is provided, which may be inexpensively manufactured and applied without structural change to windows of various sizes by sim ply cutting the rods 28 to correspond to the width of Vthe window.

be constructed of round rods 35 as shown in F ig. `6 with the ends 36 and 37 directed in opposite directions, the ends 36 corresponding to the stops 18 of the member 14, and the reversely directed ends 37 adapted to enter socketsin the members 10 and 11, the rods being secured in any suitable manner to the members 10- and 11, for instance by staples 38.

Having thus described the invention,what is claimed as new, is Y 1. A window screen in coacting overlapping sections, rods attached to the respectivesections with their confronting ends in spaced relation, a sleeve engaging the confronting ends of the rods and having transverse apertures corresponding in length to the space between the ends of the rods, and a locking element disposed through the slots and engaged by the ends of the rods.

2. A window screen in coa-cting overlapping sections, rods attached to the sections with their confronting ends in spaced rela tion, a sleeve engaging the confronting ends y of the rods and having transverse apertures corresponding in length to the space between the ends of the rods, a locking element disposed. through the slots and engaged by the ends of the rods, guide rods attached to one ofthe said sections, and guide keepers attached to the other section and slidably engaged by said guide rods.

In testimony whereof, l aflix my signature hereto.

' HORACE n. Ennis. 

